The object of this Association shall be to improve and ornament the
streets and public grounds of the village by planting and
cultivating trees, establishing and maintaining walks, grading and
draining roadways, establishing and protecting good grass plats and
borders in the streets and public squares, securing a proper public
supply of water, establishing and maintaining such sewerage as
shall be needed for the best sanitary condition of the village,
providing public fountains and drinking-troughs, breaking out paths
through the snow, lighting the streets, encouraging the formation
of a library and reading-room, and generally doing whatever may
tend to the improvement of the village as a place of residence.

ARTICLE III.

The officers of this Association shall be a President, two
Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall constitute
the Executive Committee. These officers shall be elected at the
annual meeting, and shall hold their offices until their successors
shall have been elected.

ARTICLE IV.

It shall be the duty of the President, and in his absence of the
senior Vice-President, to preside at all meetings of the
Association, and to carry out all orders of the Executive
Committee.

ARTICLE V.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a correct and careful
record of all proceedings of the Association, and of the Executive
Committee, in a book suitable for their preservation; to give
notice of all meetings of the Association and of the Executive
Committee; to make all publications, and to give all public and
private notices ordered by the Executive Committee, and to attend
to all the correspondence of the Association.

ARTICLE VI.

It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to keep the funds of the
Association, and to make such disbursements as may be ordered by
the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE VII.

It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to manage all the
affairs of the Association, to employ all laborers, to make all
contracts, to expend all moneys, and generally to direct and
superintend all improvements which in their discretion, and with
the means at their command, will best serve the public interest.
The Executive Committee shall hold a meeting at least once in each